Sentence examples for got honours from inspiring English sources

His descendant Winston Churchill did the same in 1945: he got honours, and a few million in book royalties.

In A Bic for Her, Christie pretends she's being heckled by a member of the audience ("What's that? Why are you talking about pens when you've got honour killings and sex trafficking and domestic violence and female genital mutilation?").

They get honours everywhere but their home country.

"If you remember, at the start of the year there was confusion over whether the Olympians and Paralympians would get honours; the committee said it was unlikely.

Star professors palm their pupils off on graduate students and then give them top grades to keep them happy (one survey found that 91% of Harvard graduates get honours compared with just 51% at Yale).

But who decides who gets honours, and how does the whole system work?

Several MPs who lost their jobs in David Cameron's cabinet reshuffle are to get honours, it has been announced.

Mr Livingstone, 67, said the accolade would have been for services to the Olympics but he did not believe politicians should get honours.

Revealing that until now he had only told his wife, he said: "I was offered a CBE but I don't believe politicians should get honours.

He told London radio station LBC 97.3: "I don't believe politicians should get honours", adding that he "was paid very good money to be the mayor of London" and voters' recognition was reward enough for him.

Mr Sutcliffe told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend: "If you remember, at the start of the year there was confusion over whether the Olympians and Paralympians would get honours; the committee said it was unlikely.